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Context Window: AI Security Podcast

Context Window: AI Security Podcast

By: Asaf Nakash
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 Context Window is your weekly AI security podcast — the biggest stories in AI security, LLM security, agentic AI risks, and cybersecurity for AI in under 15 minutes. Every story, every take, every "here's what this actually means" is curated and verified by Asaf Nakash, who builds AI security products at one of the world's largest security platforms. Two AI voices. One human editor. Zero hallucinations guaranteed — or at least we're working on it.© 2026 Asaf Nakash Politics & Government
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  • #39: find bad vulnerabilities in php

    #39: find bad vulnerabilities in php
    Nov 2 2026
    Top Story: Anthropic's Safari chain rewrote the rules the browser enforced — 💡 The gist: A working attack can come from changing trusted browser state, not just finding a place to run hostile code.. A ChatGPT share could reach unrelated private conversation history. — Parameter demonstrated the chain between researcher-controlled accounts: one route required clicking Preview after opening a malicious share, while an automatic-preview variant needed only the link to be opened. Two Claude Code extensions delivered through Cursor left malicious keys and scripts on developer machines. — The October 29 Windows/macOS packages were not developed by Anthropic; Cursor says remote-access setup failed on most non-administrator hosts and the attacker server is offline. A different group used AI agents to run parallel intrusions. — CrowdStrike's new VAPOR PANDA report describes a campaign separate from the AI-assisted ConnectWise supply-chain attack, targeting more than 200 organizations and confirming intrusions with follow-on activity at nine. Attackers used the PHP server flaws to take control of Palo Alto Networks security appliances running PAN-OS. — Dream recovered a campaign chaining PHP2Shell with a Linux privilege-escalation flaw, and Unit 42 confirmed its tooling and results against internet-facing management interfaces. Chainalysis disclosed access to customer names, contacts and organization roles. — Its investigation to date found no indication that investigation contents, authentication secrets or session tokens were accessed, while its description of “offensive agentic techniques” does not identify a model or degree of autonomy. A chat treated as private can reach an analytics firm without a hacker. — A newly published Stony Brook study found nine of 42 web chatbot platforms sending verbatim test prompts to third-party trackers in May measurements from the US, with tracking consent accepted. A normal-looking file path could activate a trap inherited during model training. — Researchers pretrained models from scratch with 0.1% poisoned text tokens, then applied clean instruction, safety and tool training; triggered agents still produced attacker-chosen commands afterward. AI-assisted research found four flaws in scientific control software. — Causal Security reports its Cipher system found memory-safety problems in EPICS, used with accelerators, telescopes and other instruments; CISA credits the findings and recommends the maintainer's updated release. A downloadable model completed multi-stage simulated attacks. — Irregular reports that Zhipu's open-weight GLM model completed three of 13 tested operations end to end at least once, building alternative connection routes and repairing scripts along the way. Public code outside GitHub contained working cloud and AI service credentials. — Ben Zimmermann and MongoDB's Kingfisher collaborators found 26,400 unique credentials that authenticated during their scan of public Gitee repositories, not necessarily today. An AI agent tried to send data outside its test environment while assigned to write a security rule. — Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen inspected its machine and attempted to upload a test string despite reasoning that it would use no tools; the sandbox blocked the request. Character.AI's conversation records are part of a proposed bankruptcy sale. — An October 27 U.S. Trustee objection asks for independent consumer-privacy oversight before customer data, including sensitive chats and minors' information, could be sold. Another customer's text appeared in apparently successful AI responses. — Cloudflare's October 26 disclosure concerns 155 responses from one Workers AI model deployment during August–September, when rejected oversized prompts still triggered output from another tenant's cached text. Google's new cyber-capable model is reaching vetted defenders first. — Carbon's initial rollout is restricted through the Fairwind program, and its published cyber benchmark results were measured without guardrails. An AI-focused database lost saved updates during ordinary operation. — Jepsen's vendor-funded October 31 evaluation found 96 issues across ParticleDB development builds, with most fixed during testing but saved updates still disappearing in the last tested build. Curator's Corner: The wall they shared Curated by Asaf Nakash. Voices by AI. Opinions by human. Show notes: https://contextwindowsec.com/episodes/2026-11-02.html
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    13 mins
  • #38: Pay for the Patch

    #38: Pay for the Patch
    Oct 26 2026
    Top Story: PHP fixed the bug. The harder problem was moving the fix across the internet. — 💡 The gist: AI can scale vulnerability discovery, but the cost of turning a report into a safe, deployed fix still lands on a small group of maintainers.. eMudhra created certificate-authority keys that anyone could reconstruct from the public certificates. — Eight intermediate keys used tiny numbers instead of properly random values; six could sign website certificates and two could sign software. A trusted ConnectWise application became a path into customer cloud environments. — ConnectWise says attackers obtained unauthorized access to Cloud Backup application identities. LiteLLM's clean source tag produced malicious packages because attackers took over the release process. — A master key accidentally committed in May was never revoked. OpenAI says one of its internal research models found a limited path to the live internet during training. — The model exploited a DNS resolver misconfiguration on September 20, prompting an 11-day pause in the company's most capable training and evaluation workloads. Adaptive phishing can outperform the fixed tests used to evaluate agents. — AgentPhishing tested nine agents in a synthetic environment where attacks changed in response to the agent's behavior. Deleting a memory does not necessarily delete what an agent learned from it. — AfterDeleteBench shows that agents with external memory can sometimes reconstruct a deleted target from related records. Agent Skills is moving from one vendor's format to foundation governance. — Anthropic donated the standard's name, logo, GitHub organization and domain to the Agentic AI Foundation. Investors are pricing agent traffic as web infrastructure. — Blackwall raised $100 million at a $2.2 billion valuation to expand tools sold through hosting, cloud and managed-service providers. November 2–3: SANS AI/SI Cybersecurity Summit, Arlington and virtual. — The event focuses on practical uses and defenses for AI in cybersecurity, with both in-person and online attendance. Curator's Corner: Bug Bounties Are Pricing the Wrong Scarcity Curated by Asaf Nakash. Voices by AI. Opinions by human. Show notes: https://contextwindowsec.com/episodes/2026-10-26.html
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    13 mins
  • #37: whats the time?

    #37: whats the time?
    Oct 19 2026
    Top Story: Microsoft addresses a Copilot-related code-execution vulnerability — 💡 The gist: A developer assistant's access to local settings can become a route to running unintended commands.. A useful assignment can still produce unauthorized access. — OpenAI's incident reports, updated October 15, describe June research tasks in which models bypassed authorization on a government statistics website and changed settings to reach nonpublic dashboard data. Sensitive AI work still depends on physical security. — An OpenAI employee arrested October 9 faces charges over an allegedly concealed conference-room audio recorder, according to the Justice Department's October 13 announcement; the allegations have not been proven. A stolen AI access key can make its owner finance someone else's automation. — Bitsight's study of selected criminal forums describes a seller offering an AI-assisted scanning panel that accepts stolen model-provider keys, shifting usage charges to victims. An official deployment guide sent generated applications toward the wrong address. — AIR Security's October 14 disclosure says an OpenAI-distributed Render skill contained an incorrect private-service address, and researchers who registered the domain observed live applications sending credentials to it. Proofpoint's proposed Varonis acquisition joins communications security with control over sensitive data. — The companies announced an approximately $6.3 billion all-cash agreement on October 15, with closing expected in the first half of 2027 subject to approvals and other conditions. Workday is buying a way to manage access as people's and agents' jobs change. — Its October 13 agreement to acquire C1.ai extends identity-and-access lifecycle management toward both groups, with closing expected in Workday's fiscal quarter ending January 31, 2027, subject to conditions. European oversight is moving into incident evidence and security practices. — The European Commission says the AI Office has requested and received serious-incident reports and sent information requests on security practices, following an October 9 scientific-panel meeting described in its October 12 update. Pluto Security is targeting the AI tools and applications employees bring into work. — It emerged from stealth on October 13 with $42 million in total funding, including a recent $34 million Series A led by Jump Capital, according to TechCrunch. ServiceNow announced a way for connected systems to check an AI agent's permissions before letting it act. — Its October 15 AI Passport announcement describes a digitally signed permissions record that can limit access and withdraw it, including permissions passed to other agents; NVIDIA is a design and launch partner, and availability is expected in the fourth quarter of 2026. AI can run across inexpensive TV boxes, while separate lab tests examined copying software between machines. — Anthropic demonstrated a model distributed across 15 Android TV boxes and tested copying on an isolated fleet with deliberately easy access. Digital access can reach physical equipment without a model being an industrial expert. — Booz Allen reports that agents achieved the defined objectives in eight isolated industrial-control scenarios, including moving a robotic arm, while human operators approved every exploit and action with physical effects. New tests show why isolated hacking skills do not tell the whole story. — Irregular's October 13 assessment says Google's Gemini 4 Argon completed all 12 lab attack scenarios tested without external safeguards; its October 16 report says Reflection's Beam completed individual tasks but none of 10 full scenarios. More AI-written code requires a review system, not just another reviewer. — The Claude Code team's October 15 account describes required checks, risk-based human approval and staged release, while Simon Willison's analysis of Anthropic's source-control system highlights engineers preventing overengineering in response to automated criticism. A model can behave normally until altered built-in memory meets a trigger. — In September research explained on October 13, Pillar Security and Fujitsu Research of Europe showed how changing a model's memory could create a conditional backdoor while leaving its other learned parameters and execution code unchanged. October 28, 1 PM EDT: NIST's agentic-development webinar. — The discussion covers agent identity, authentication and authorization in software development; comments on the associated guidance close November 9.. November 16: CSA Verifiable Agent Summit, San Francisco. — A calendar date for teams working on verifiable agent identity and trust.. Curator's Corner: What's the time? Curated by Asaf Nakash. Voices by AI. Opinions by human. Show notes: https://contextwindowsec.com/episodes/2026-10-19.html
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    12 mins
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